• candyman337
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      Yes, the majority of the population in the US is in the northeast, that’s why people hate the electoral college system. It gives a significant amount of power to a majority voting minority. A better way to represent a minority would be a ranked choice system.

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        Electoral college vs ranked choice voting is a false dichotomy. You can do one, the other, both, or neither.

        The way to eliminating the electoral college, since it is enshrined in the constitution, is either a constitutional amendment changing to a popular vote method (highly unlikely), or the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

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          And both ways involve the states that benefit from the disproportionate power choosing to give it up.

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            Yeah I didn’t say it was ever gonna happen unfortunately, I’m just saying it SHOULD happen

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      Well when you are settling east to west some people don’t like taking super long dangerous trips

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      I didn’t realize so few people lived in the Northwest. I thought Seattle was bigger than that

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        that yellow space has pretty much all the empty space all the way into minnesota. it’s all big rocks, missile silos, and prairie dogs.

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        It’s big, not huge, but there’s not a lot of other big cities out west. In terms of metro area population, it falls right in between Detroit and Minneapolis.